An innocent Christmas celebration, a couple of beers led to an
untimely end result when a Texas redneck tangled with a Texas lectric fence.
Needless to say the fence won....read on for the rest of the story....?

I am sure we have all heard the phrase, "Don't pee on an electric
fence."? Well it just isn't a joke.? Here is what happened to someone
that did just that on a 3 phase electric fence.? So what is 3 phase, you
might ask?? Electricity is provided to each home as 2 of the 3 phases produced
by the transformer on the pole.? Our lights and wall outlets are single
phase at 110 volts and our stoves, Air Condition, and large appliances
use
2 phase which is two different 110 volt legs or normally 220 to 230
volts.?

The difference between phases is that they each alternate between
plus 110 volts down to minus 110 volts thus the name Alternating Current
or AC.? Your car uses a battery and that is DC or Direct Current.? Each
phase alternates through their cycle 60 times a second however they each
are timed to start through their cycles one third of the cycle behind
the preceeding cycle so that none of the three are exactly at the same stage
at the same time.?????

The third leg, as it is known, is brought into industrial sites to
power up large motors pulling heavy loads.?

Can you say "ouch"??....? Notice the key phrase here is "...a
three-phase electric fence."? Yep, it would burn it off!? Ever wonder
what would happen if you peed on a 3-phase electric fence??? Take a look (not
for timid, gentle souls).

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I'm a little surprised, though, that an electric fence would carry that much power. They are supposed to keep livestock away from the fence, not to pre-cook the livestock. I've never peed on an electric fence, but I have touched more than one. It was unpleasant, but it didn't cause damage.

The photo is taken from a medical journal article by 5 Chinese doctors. The penile burn is in fact electrical, but resulted from misuse of a hospital diathermy machine, not an electric fence.

The medical journal (Asian Journal of Andrology) gives the following account of how the penis became burnt:

A 38-year-old man was admitted to this Hospital for severe penile burn caused by excessive short-wave diathermy. Five days ago, the patient visited a clinic for recurrent genital herpes simplex. Circumcision was performed and local short wave diathermy given immediately. The frequency of short wave source was 13.56 MHz with a penile exposing time of about 2.5 hours. Blisters and extravasation at the penile skin were seen 1 day and became black 3 days after short-wave diathermy. The patient could micturate [i.e., urinate] without hematuria [i.e., blood in the urine]. The whole penis was burned black and became indurated [i.e., hardened] with a clear margin with the normal skin at the base of the penis. He felt no pain in the penis even with needle puncture. Doppler sonography revealed no blood flow in the penis and severe burn and penile gangrene was diagnosed.

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Thanks, ericbear, it just didn't seem right to me that an electric fence would be carrying something like 330 volts at something like 45 amps. Just a little excessive. I kinda suspect that even security fences running at higher power ratings than cattle fences, would not carry that kind of wattage.

The photo is taken from a medical journal article by 5 Chinese doctors. The penile burn is in fact electrical, but resulted from misuse of a hospital diathermy machine, not an electric fence.

The medical journal (Asian Journal of Andrology) gives the following account of how the penis became burnt:

A 38-year-old man was admitted to this Hospital for severe penile burn caused by excessive short-wave diathermy. Five days ago, the patient visited a clinic for recurrent genital herpes simplex. Circumcision was performed and local short wave diathermy given immediately. The frequency of short wave source was 13.56 MHz with a penile exposing time of about 2.5 hours. Blisters and extravasation at the penile skin were seen 1 day and became black 3 days after short-wave diathermy. The patient could micturate [i.e., urinate] without hematuria [i.e., blood in the urine]. The whole penis was burned black and became indurated [i.e., hardened] with a clear margin with the normal skin at the base of the penis. He felt no pain in the penis even with needle puncture. Doppler sonography revealed no blood flow in the penis and severe burn and penile gangrene was diagnosed.

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Sorry guys for posting a dumb fake story.....found this story on another board and thought I'd share.....I'm so embarrassed, I'll go and sit in the corner now :redface:

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Sorry guys for posting a dumb fake story.....found this story on another board and thought I'd share.....I'm so embarrassed, I'll go and sit in the corner now :redface:

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No problem, BC. No one can be expert in all areas, and if you aren't familiar with electric fences, I can understand. I had access to several farms in my youth, so I had at least a basic understanding.

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I'd sooner pee on an electric fence (done that) than to pee on the spark plug of a running lawn mower (done that, too.)

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Heheh, Pecker, I never peed on the spark plug of a running lawn mower, but I was doing the start-of-season tune up on one, and my evil older brother gave the starter cord a good yank while I was re-connecting the spark plug. An electric fence has nothing compared to a lawn mower magneto.

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Well all this electricity and pee talk has reminded me of when I was about 5 and I pissed in the power outlet.....and caused a blackout in the building and the outlet was sparking for a few hrs until my dad taped it up.

Thanks, ericbear, it just didn't seem right to me that an electric fence would be carrying something like 330 volts at something like 45 amps. Just a little excessive. I kinda suspect that even security fences running at higher power ratings than cattle fences, would not carry that kind of wattage.

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Not only that, but if the fence was carrying 330 volts at 45 amps AC, that would have been more than enough amperage to kill a person! I have read that as little as 30 miliAmps can kill. It's the amperage that kills, not the voltage.